ABSTRACT
Methods are described for the execution of free skin grafts in rabbits, guinea-pigs and mice.
Much of the work in which use has been made of the techniques described above has been generously supported over a period of years by the Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Oxford (Prof. T. Pomfret Kilner, F.R.C.S.).
Plastic surgeons now use the term split-thickness graft to describe one comprising the epidermis and some but not all of the dermis, and confine the term Thiersch graft to the thinnest split-thickness graft which it is practicable to cut. The present authors propose to use the term Thiersch graft in its wider generic sense, since they have used ‘split skin grafts’ to describe grafts of pure epidermis, i.e. epidermal sheets from which the dermis has been wholly removed.
